by support@ryatta.com | Mar 31, 2015 | Development, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Workshops
At Ruby Hack Night in February, we completed a series of Koans. A workshop participant had the following comments about the Koans dealing with Hash default values. “From what I understand, when a default value (such as [] or Array.new) is passed as argument to...
by support@ryatta.com | Mar 27, 2015 | Development, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Workshops
A great time was had by all March 25, 2015, at Ruby Hack Night. At the event about 30 Ruby developers teamed in small groups and pair-programmed Uncle Bob’s Bowling Game Kata in Ruby. We used everything in our TDD toolkit to implement the solution quickly and...
by support@ryatta.com | Mar 24, 2015 | Best Practices, Luxury Theme, ROBE for Spa, Spa Management
Customers booking spa treatments online care deeply about their experiences. This is something we’ve always known, but the surprise is how much this is true. We decided to look into the effects of our launch of Itinerary Booking™ (patent pending) last year. What...
by support@ryatta.com | Mar 23, 2015 | Best Practices, Luxury Theme, ROBE for Spa, Spa Management
Looking back on 2014, I realize now just how many new features we released for ROBE for Spa. Each quarter was something significant. Here is a summary of the highlights from last year: Q1 (Feb 1, 2014) Ryatta launches what I believe to be the most ambitious upgrade to...
by support@ryatta.com | Mar 9, 2015 | Development, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Workshops
With the advent of Extreme Programming, Agile methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD) has come a newfound, almost reverent, respect for testing. Testing used to be an afterthought – so separated from the software development process that it was relegated...
